William lumley



(No Model.)

W. LUMLEY.

MR'JTITIOBIA SUPPORT FOR PIGEON HOLES 0R DRAWERS.

No. 397,866. Patented Feb.'12, 1889.

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IVILLIAM LMLEY, OF Cl'lICAG-O, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO FRANCES LUMLEY, OF SAME PLACE.

FRTITIONHSUPPORT FOR PIGEONHHOLES AND DRAM/ERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part oi' Letters Patent No. 397,866, dated February 12, 1889.

Application filed August i), 1838. Serial No. 232,320. (No niodeld To all wiz/07H, 2"/5y 71mg/ cm1/cern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM LUMLEY, a citizen of the United Stat-es, and a resident oi Chicago, in the county of Oook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use- -ful Improvements in Partition-Supports for Pigeon-Holes and Drawers, ot which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to improvements in partition-supporis especially designed for use upon desks, to enable the dividing or partitioning ot' drawers and pigeon-holes into smaller compartments (littering in size and shape from the permanent form of the desk, and which is in the vform oi.' an attachment thereto, and therefore does not form a permanent portion of the desk, as do the ordinary cleats or divisionstrips generally used for 'this purpose, but is especially designed as an improvement upon the invention set forth in my application for Letters Patent, Serial No. 252,015, filed October 11,1887.v In that application the support was shown as consisting of crimped, corrugated, or bent metal attached by means of tacks or otherwise to the desk, but which presented along the edges of the support a series of openings in the spaces between the groove occupied by the partitions, thus not only leaving sharp edges against which the hands might be bruised or cut and recesses in which would lodge dust and dirt, but also presented an unsightly appearance, which rendered the support objectionable 'l'or use upon a desk, especiallyT in pigeon-holes or other spaces where it would be constantly in sight.

The prime object oli this invention is lo improve the appearance ot the support by closing the ends oi the spaces adjacent to the grooves occupied by the partitions, thereby giving a perfect tinish to the support and detract from thc appearance of the desk. I attain these objects by the devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a portion of a desk, illustrating the manner of attaching my support to the pigeon-holes and drawers thereof; Fig. a horizontal section of aportion of a drawer or desk-trame, taken through one of the grooves in which the partition is designed torest; Fig. 3,21 perspective view thereof; and Fig. l, a tace view of a port-ion of a drawer or desk-frame, more clearly showing the cmitour of the finished article.

Similar letters ot .ret'erenee indicate the same paris inthe several figures of the drawings.

Reierring by letter io the accompanying drawings, A indicates the walls of a drawer or pigeon-hole, and B the removable supports, consisting of sheet metal crimped, stamped, or otherwise formed with projecting ribs C at regular intervals therein, with alternate spaces D between said ribs in which to insert the partitions E, as more clearly shown in Fig. l. These ribs C extend the entire length of the support, and are struck or crushed down onto the base of the support a short distance in Afrom the edge, and extend at an angle from the base to the top of the ribs, thus closing the ends ot the spaces formed by said ribs between the grooves in which the partitions are inserted. This flattened portion of the support is then bent baekwardly along the edge in. a line at right angles to the ribs, so as to lie obliipiely to the base olf the support, which angular portion F is inserted, in a corresponding angular groove, G, v[formed in the face of the drawer or desktrame, thereby preventing the detachment ot the support i3' rom the desk by a direct strain at right angles to the base thereof, and may be then iirmly secured in place against the possibility ot aceiden tal detaehm ent by .means ot' small tacks Il, inserted therein at the four corners thereof, or, iil the strip is of any considerable height orlength, by one or two tacks placed intermediate the corner tacks.

The flattening or stamping down oi' the ribs along the edge of the support serves to materially strengthen and stiften the entire IOO body ol' the support, but liiartieularly the angular port-ion thereof, whieh is inserted into the groove in the deelt, while at the Same time it serves tio close the ends ol" all of the unoeeupied Spaces at the ends olf the ribs between the groove` in which the partitions are inserted, thus `giving' tothe Support a finished and rather ornamental appearaiu'e, besides dispensing withthe sharpand nneightl)v edges practically engaged in the manulaeture ot' l deSkS and other ot'tiee lfl'lrniturey I` am qualitied to State that unless the ends o'l' theSe spaces an be eloaed, and in a @heap and posse/Sees in the highest degree, and, in addition, has the advantage of detaehabilty Without disligurement ot' the desk and the capaliilitY of a greater number of divisions in a given apz'ieethan is possible with the old i'orm olf permanent; supports.

llaving' deseribed my invention, what I elaini, and desire to eeenre by l'ietteraI latent, isu

l. 'lhe eombnation, with a desk, ol' a partition-support composed olf Sheet metal havingparallel ribs struck up thereoinsaid ribsbein e; flattened or struc-fl; down at the ends thereof', so :le to olose the .spaces formed b v said ribs without. olatruetingl the grooves between the Same, nulistinitially aS and for the 'purpose speeilied.

,lhe combination, with a desk, the wallh1 el? which are provided with angular grooves, el partitionsupports having` ribs struck up thereon, Said ribis` being' 'flattened or Struck down at the ends thereolj', so as to elose the spares lorined by Said ribs, but;- not; obstruct l the grooves therebetween, said flattened poreffective manner, suoli removable suliports;

have little eonnnereial value and will be used only to a ver)v limi ted extent, and t'u rther, that it equally important that the support Shall be ol eheap material and ornamental in oonstruetion and man ufaeture, aswell as combine all of the ad vantagee ol;A the ordinary permanent wooden atripa, all oli' which my device tion of the support being` lient atan obliqlu` angle tlurreto tor insertion into ille groovea in thtl (leali-Walla7 substz'tntially ae deseribed. 

